She was not convinced exactly.

She was too strong a nature to relinquish a principle without a period of meditative struggle in which conscience should have all its dues.

But her tone made his heart leap.

He felt in it a momentary self-surrender that, coming from a creature of so rare a dignity, filled him with an exquisite sense of power, and yet at the same time with a strange humility beyond words.
A day or two later he was the spectator of a curious little scene.

An aunt of the Leyburns living in Whinborough came to see them.